Improvement in towel-racks



S. T. KANUSE.

TOWEL-RACK. No.188,918, Patented March 27,1877.

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SAMUEL T. KANUSE, 0F TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOWEL-RACKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [88,918, dated March 27, 1877; application filed February 27, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL T. KANUSE, of Taunton, of the county of Bristol. of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Towel-Racks and do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 is a rear view, of a towel-rack with my improvement.

in this rack each of the supporters A A of the towel-sustaining bars B B is composed of thin sheet metal, and is provided at its rear end with a fastening-ear, 0, formed and extended from its inner side, as shown. These ears are to receive the screws for fastening the article to a wall or other surface. Furthermore, the bars B B are secured to the supporters by screws D D, which go through holes in the latter, and screw into the bars lengthwise of them, and at their ends. Each bar may have a ferrule, a, fixed on it at each end of it, to strengthen it there, and prevent it from being split by the screw.

The object of making the two supporters A A with the two ears arranged as represented, and fastening the bars to the supporters by screws, is to enable the supporters to be dis. posed in such manner that the ears may either project toward or in directions away from each other.

Sometimes in fastening the rack to an object it is more convenient to have the ears project from the outer sides of the supporters. Then, again, it maybe more convenient to have them project in ward from the supporters.

By having the ear of one supporter to project from it in a direction opposite to that in which the other ear extends from its supporter, and by connecting the supporters to the bars by screws, arranged as set forth, the ears may be disposed so as to project between or outside of the supporters.

I claim- The improved towel-rack, constructed as described-viz., with its bars B B connected to the supporters A A by screws, and with such supporters provided with a fastening-ear, 0, arranged to project from it in manner and with respect to the fastening-ear of the other supporter, as represented and explained.

SAMUEL '1. KANUSE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. B. SNOW. 

